Five items: two original woodblock prints 1) a rustic farm setting printed in black (5" x 7 1/8" image on 12 1/2" x 8 1/4" handmade Japanese paper folded to 6 1/4" x 8 1/4"); signed 'Seasons Greetings from Jesse and Cornelis Botke' in red 2) a cozy country home..... More
New York: The Womans Press, 1922. 1st. Paperback. 1st edition thus. 4to. 51, [1] pp. Decorative wrappers with cream title label affixed to front cover. Age toning to front cover; minor wear to extremities else near fine. Reprinted from Volume I of Folk Songs of Many Peoples. Next day shipping..... More
Paris: Fayard, 1973. 1st. Hardcover. Square 4to. 6pp text in French. Black & white photographic plates. Brown cloth with white lettering in brown photo-illustrated dustjacket. A fine copy in very good dustjacket (short closed tears; wear to extremities). Historical photographs of Paris at the turn of the 20th century. All..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1942. 1st. First Edition. Large 8vo. 298 pp. Black & white photographs by the author. Tan cloth in photo-illustrated dustjacket. Wartime news clippings, some about the author, affixed to rear pages; owner bookplate & name; some foxing else very good in god dustjacket (fading to..... More
France: Tome 1 - Du Littoral a L'Arriere Pays, 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Large square 8vo. [124]pp, unpaginated; most pages color plates. Text in French, English and Japanese. SIGNED by the artist. A fine copy in fine color illustrated dustjacket. Scarce monograph on the work of Andre Bourrie, foremost master of..... More
Buenos Aires,Argentina: Ediciones Libreria La Ciudad, 1980. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition, Limited #1759 of 4000 copies. Folio. 135pp. Color and black & white plates. Text by Ray Bradbury, illustrations by Aldo Sessa. Laid in is a 24pp staplebound exhibition catalog of the original illustrations for the book SIGNED by Sessa..... More
Corona Del Mar, CA: Published by the author, 1960. The Artist’s A-Frame architectural plans and drawings (each 24" x 32") include 2 pages of plans and 2 pages of artist renderings by Rex Brandt. Included are two book by & about Rex Brandt: "Rex Brandt: In Praise of Sunshine" by..... More
London: Zwemmer, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 206 pp. Index. Plates; In-text illustrations. Orange printed stiff wrappers in fine condition. "...the author traces the origin and development of the [Burgundian Gothic] style as well as its dissolution under the impact of Chartres and the Corut Style of Paris in the mid-13th..... More
New York: [Printed by the Commercial Press, Ltd. for the Chalfant Publication Fund], 1935. SIGNED by the author on cover page. Tall 8vo. 21 pp.Title and author's name also in English and Chinese. Photographic reproductions on most pages with some details. Cream printed staplebound wrappers in very good condition (1"..... More
Metuchen, N.J. Scarecrow Press and the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. viii, 500 pp. Index; Bibliography. Black & white photo-illustrated plates. Black cloth with silver lettering in fine condition. The biography and discography of James Price Johnson (1894 – 1955), an American pianist and composer..... More
London: The Phaidon Press, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 286pp. Many black and white plates. Catalogue of the Wilfred Buckley Collection. Gift inscription. A near fine copy in good only dustjacket. More
Chicago; New York: Burke & James, ca 1910s. Original wrappers. First Edition. Tall 8vo. 40 pp. Illustrations. Color illustrated wrappers in very good condition (crease lines down front cover; light wear to extremities). An uncommon price catalog offering various types of Rexo cameras with backgound information and supplies. The Rexo..... More
Utah: Brigham Young University Press, 1973. First Edition, Limited Special Edition #149 of 250 copies. Oblong 4to. 237 pp. Bibliography. Index. 32 color plates; 83 black & white illustrations. Staplebound 4pp color prospectus laid in. Publisher's padded brown leatherette spine over cream linen boards; gilt lettering; housed in brown leatherette..... More
New Haven & London: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. 4to. Text: xxvii, 668 pp; Plates: [7] pp + 652 plates with 1193 illustrations (including 251 in color). Bibliography; Table of Watermarks; Index of Titles and Subjects. Green..... More
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, Ltd., 1971. 1st. Cloth. Quarto. 141pp. 25 color and 99 black & white reproductions (complete). Brown cloth in illustrated dustjacket. "Paul Signac became the spokesman and proselytizer for neo-impressionism, as well as the movement's most important painter after Seurat." - dustjacket flap. More
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1929. 1st. Hardcover. 8vo. 300pp. 8 photo-illustrations (including frontispiece portrait of Moussia). Fuschia cloth with gilt lettering in color printed dustjacket. A fine copy in scarce very good dustjacket (wear to extremities with chips at spine ends; spine lightly faded; general wear; corners of flaps..... More
Monterey, CA: Privately Printed, ca. 1930s. The menu is 6 1/8" x 8 5/8" single sheet. Cream paper with colorful Jo Mora designed illustration with black lettering on front side; menu printed on back side with a design of a Spanish Galleon sailing in rough seas at the top. Some..... More
[El Monte, CA]: Latin American Village, [1947]. First Edition. Large folio (20 x 13 in.) 14 color serigraph images, including title leaf, mounted on 4-ply pebbled tag board [with] 4to, 16 pp. printed beige wrappers, stapled as issued, hole punch to head of spine. Laid in a heavy black paper..... More
[El Monte, CA]: Latin American Village, [1947]. First Edition. Large folio (20 x 13 in.) 11 color serigraph images, including title leaf, mounted on 4-ply pebbled tag board [with] 8vo, [28] pp. single-sided printed beige wrappers, stapled as issued, hole punch to head of spine (front cover detached). Laid in..... More
Greenwich CT: Seven Bridges Foundation, 2006. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; 79 pages. More
New York: Edmond Byrne Hackett, Brick Row Book Shop, 1923. First Edition. Small 8vo. 47 pp. 15 full page and 17 small color watercolor and gouache drawings, SIGNED, by Frances Paelian. The cover has a painted cut-out of an elaborately turbaned woman with applied metal earrings and necklace above a...... More
Sausalito: Canyon Cinema, 1973. 1st. Quarto; 38 pages. Staple-bound wrappers. Light wear & age-toning else a near fine copy. Lists 8 mm and 16 mm films. Indexed. Publisher's printed Addenda listing the film "Different Strokes" directed by Stephen F. Varona, laid in. More
Sausalito: Canyon Cinema, 1976. Quarto; 270 pages. Index. Photo-reproductions. Stiff illustrated softcover in near fine condition (previous owner inscription; light general wear). More
New York Graphic Society, 1988. First Edition. SIGNED by Paul Caponigro. Square 4to. 93 pp. 61 black and white prints; Essay by the photographer. 12-page offering booklet from The Ansel Adams Gallery laid in. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. "Seasons reveals Caponigro work both classic and rare. In many..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1918. First Edition. Small 4to. Unpaginated. black & white illustrations; 3 color plates with tissue guards. Stiff cream wrappers with red, black & white lettering & illustration of front cover. Neat price notation in pencil next to each lot. Light, general wear;short splitting at front..... More